On this matter, Blavatsky noted the following:
« Occult science
teaches that the frame of mind in which a man dies, is of the utmost importance
owing to the abnormal and psychic state in which he then is. The last thought
of a dying person does much to influence his immediate future.
The arrow is ready to fly from
the bow; the bow-string is abreast of the ear, and the aim will decide the
immediate fate of the arrow. Happy is he for whom “Om is the bow, the Self is
the arrow, the Brahman—its aim!”
(Mundaka-Upanishad II, ii, 4)
At such a sacred moment, strong
spiritual aspirations, whether natural or induced by the earnest exhortation of
either one who has a true conviction, or better still, of one possessed of the
divine Gnosis, will protect the Soul of him who is leaving life.
This is not meant, however, to
endorse the superstition of a “death-bed repentance,” for the immutable justice
and harmony of the Karmic Law can only return a fleeting effect for a fleeting
cause; and the rest of the Karmic debt must be paid in future earth-lives.
“Agree with thine adversary
quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary
deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou
be cast into prison. AMEN I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out
thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.”
(Matt., v, 25, 26).
That is to say, according to the
Gnostic and esoteric interpretation, work while it is yet day, so that good
Karmic action may balance the evil causes previously set in motion by the
personality.
Otherwise, at death we shall be judged by our own
Higher Self, and under the conduct of the agents of the Karmic Law (the
Demiourgos collectively), will have to reincarnate again into the prison of the
body, until the past evil Karma has been exhausted. For until the last farthing
of the Karmic debt is exhausted, we can never be untied from the wheel of
“Samsara.” »
(CW 13, p.74-75)
OBSERVATIONS
We see therefore that the last
thought we have at the time of death is very important, but you should know that
there are two "last thoughts":
1) The last thought that we can
do voluntarily and intentionally, and this thought is this thought will have a
great influence on our immediate future after we die.
And for example, the masters
explained that most humans lose consciousness after they die and remain asleep
when they enter the astral plane. But Master Pasteur taught that if at the
moment you are dying, you concentrate, and you mention the mantra
"So-Ham", and you focus on what that mantra means, that is, "you
are a soul."
Then after dying you will stay
awake and transferred directly to an elevated area of the astral plane.
2) And there is the last thought
that we cannot control and that occurs after we see our whole lives pass before
our eyes.
And this other last thought will
be the synthesis of what we have done most during our life on Earth, and will
have a great influence on our existence in the Devachan (Heaven) and also in
our next reincarnation.
On this matter, Master Kuthumi
wrote:
« That thought, that feeling
which is the strongest in us at that supreme hour; when, as in a dream, the
events of a long life, to their minutest details, are marshalled in the
greatest order in a few seconds in our vision — that feeling will become the fashioner of
our bliss or woe, the life-principle
of our future existence. »
(ML 20, p.127-128)
And William Judge also pointed
out that:
« When a man dies, the brain dies
last. Life is still busy there after death has been announced. The soul
marshals up all past events, grasps the sum total, the average tendency stands
out, the ruling hope is seen. Their final aroma forms the keynote of Devachanic
existence. »
(Echoes of the Orient III, p.43)
And this other second thought (or
tonality, or vibration, as you want to call it) we cannot manipulate it in that
moment in which we are dying, but we are building it daily from the actions
that we are doing throughout our Earthly life.
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